Mickey Mouse might want to at least start thinking about
getting his tux pressed. The animated Disney short film "Get a
Horse!," which is scheduled to run before prints of Disney's forthcoming
animated feature "Frozen," is among the 10 films still in the running for an Oscar nomination in this year's best animated shorts category. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences released its 10-film shortlist in the category,
pared down from 56 qualifying films, this afternoon (Nov. 7).

If "Get a Horse!" should win, it would mark back-to-back
victories in the category for Disney. Last year, the studio's charming "Paperman" took home
the trophy, the first time since 1969 the studio won an Oscar for an animated
short. It also would mark the first time a Mickey Mouse cartoon won the category in 73 years, since "Lend a Paw" took home the award in 1941.

"Get a Horse!" combines old-school hand-drawn animation with
computer animation, as well as archival records of Walt Disney himself as the
voice of Mickey, to tell the story of a musical hayride disrupted by Peg Leg
Pete. Directed by Lauren McMullen, it already has earned critical praise
following film-festival screenings.

Conspicuously absent from this year's shortlist is Walt
Disney Animation's sister studio Pixar, which released "The Blue Umbrella" this
year, shown ahead of prints of "Monsters
University." The full list of shortlisted animated shorts follows, in alphabetical
order as provided by the Academy.

"Subconscious
Password," Chris Landreth, director (National Film Board of Canada with the
participation of Seneca College Animation Arts Centre and Copperheart
Entertainment)

Members of the
Academy's Short Films and Feature Animation Branch Reviewing Committee will
whittle the shortlist down to three to five final nominees. The list of
nominees in all Oscar categories will be announced Jan. 16. The 86th
annual Academy Awards will be telecast live on March 2 on ABC.